Amitesh Grover

{{Short description|Indian theatre director}} {{Undisclosed paid|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox artist | name = Amitesh Grover | image = Amitesh Grover.jpg | alma_mater = University of the Arts London | awards = Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar ,<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |last=Nath |first=Parshathy J. |date=2020-01-16 |title=I make the audience complicit in my art: Amitesh Grover |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/theatre/in-conversation-with-amitesh-grover-festival-director-of-the-international-theatre-festival-of-kerala/article30574810.ece |access-date=2024-01-31 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> | birth_date = 1980 | known_for = Theatre & Performance | notable_works = The Money Opera, The Last Poet, Velocity Pieces | style = Experimental | spouse = Sarah Mariam | website = https://amiteshgrover.com | caption = | birth_place = New Delhi, India }} '''Amitesh Grover''' (born 1980) is an Indian theatre director and Professor of theatre direction at the National School of Drama. He is known for his experimental theatre, performances, and installations.<ref name=":5"/> In 2008, Sangeet Natak Akademi awarded him Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for his contribution to the field of theatre direction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=English Releases |url=https://pib.gov.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?relid=52447 |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=pib.gov.in}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==

Born in New Delhi, he completed his schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and his graduation at Delhi University. He earned a scholarship to study at National School of Drama, New Delhi in 2001, where he completed M.A. (Diploma) in Theatre Direction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NSD Graduates |url=https://nsd.gov.in/delhi/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/NSD-GRADUATES1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260226192854/https://nsd.gov.in/delhi/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/NSD-GRADUATES1.pdf |archive-date=2026-02-26 |access-date=2026-03-09 |website=nsd.gov.in}}</ref> In 2005, he received the Charles Wallace Scholarship to study in London, where he completed M.A. in Theatre and Performance from the University of the Arts London.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ananthakrishnan |first1=B. |last2=Collins |first2=Jane |date=2019-05-04 |title=Against a hierarchy of expressive means; arguments for new pedagogies in performer education in India and the UK |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682761.2018.1429758 |journal=Studies in Theatre and Performance |language=en |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=113–131 |doi=10.1080/14682761.2018.1429758 |issn=1468-2761|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

== Work == Grover is known for his innovative work in the field of theatre and performance. His work first attracted attention for integrating digital technology in live performances.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-03-19 |title=Meet the brave new digital theatre |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/meet-the-brave-new-digital-theatre/story-QPdcKNxxiPkQvEqLW8jVjJ.html |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref> In 2007, he directed Falk Richter's play '''Electronic City''' in which live camera feed, TV-sets and projections were used along with actors on stage.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Razdan |first=Arjun |date=2007-09-22 |title=The future is here |url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/C2ejUYsXbpKoS2otWhN2aO/The-future-is-here.html |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=mint |language=en}}</ref> Other theatre presentations of his include '''Memorable Equinox''' (2007), '''Hamlet''' '''Quartet''' (2009), and '''Strange Lines''' (2010), in which motion tracking, real-time video feed and multimedia were integral elements of the performances.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-01-04 |title=Comic Capers |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/comic-capers/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-10-27 |title=Prithvi's all decked up for its annual theatre festival |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai/prithvi-s-all-decked-up-for-its-annual-theatre-festival/story-srcQM2olpk9nMOFhPA6qCL.html |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref> Ever since, his hybrid creations have gained a growing dedicated audience in India.<ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2022-01-18 |title=When art is not restricted by medium: Exploring the oeuvre of interdisciplinary artist Amitesh Grover |url=https://abirpothi.com/when-art-is-not-restricted-by-medium-exploring-the-oeuvre-of-interdisciplinary-artist-amitesh-grover/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Abirpothi |language=en-US}}</ref>

He gained acclaim for his "real-life" performances. Moving away from conventional theatre, Grover created participatory performances that brought real life and real people into the theatre. '''Social Gaming''' (2010–12) was an event Grover created in collaboration with British artist Alex Fleetwood, which connected audiences in different countries in real time through a series of social tasks and games.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-01-07 |title=The Show Begins |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/the-show-begins-2/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-05 |title=The Bridge Player |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/the-bridge-player/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> '''The Sleep Concert''' (2013–14) was a one-week long performance event of collective sleeping energies curated by Grover and his collaborators Frank Oberhausser and Shaunak Sen. Held over the course of several nights in multiple locations in New Delhi and Berlin, the audience was lulled into sleep with a set of carefully curated performances, participatory acts, and live-improvisations. The show was nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica award in Austria in 2016.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sengupta |first=Ashis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=33VMEAAAQBAJ&dq=heimathafen+amitesh+grover&pg=PA120 |title=Postdramatic Theatre and India: Theatre-Making Since the 1990s |date=2022-01-27 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-15410-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-11-24 |title=Close Your Eyes |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/close-your-eyes-2/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>

In '''Songs of Mourning''' (2013–16), Grover worked with a professional traditional ''Oppari'' mourner to stage an unscripted interview about the rituals and processes of expressing grief in India. The show travelled to various festivals in India and Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-07-31 |title=If you have tears, prepare to shed them now |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/if-you-have-tears-prepare-to-shed-them-now/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=swissinfo.ch |first=<Anand Chandrasekhar> |date=2016-07-21 |title=The sleep of the grateful dead |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/artistic-analysis_the-sleep-of-the-grateful-dead-/42301670 |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=SWI swissinfo.ch |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=PTI |date=2015-02-10 |title=Art of grieving |url=https://www.millenniumpost.in/art-of-grieving-54284 |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=www.millenniumpost.in |language=en}}</ref> Extending real-life performances into his own life, he created '''Back To Work''' (2016–17) in which he went undercover in a technology company to work as an IT professional for a duration of six months. During his employment, in addition to his job he produced performances, CCTV-art, and a film.<ref>{{Cite web |title=I into You into Me |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/i-into-you-into-me/cid/1668771 |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=www.telegraphindia.com |language=en}}</ref> The art-works produced in this series was shown in an exhibition tilted ‘Hangar for the Passerby’ curated by Akansha Rastogi and commissioned by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-21 |title=Exploring relationships between geographies, biographies and forgotten histories |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/exploring-relationships-geographies-biographies-forgotten-histories/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Architectural Digest India |language=en-IN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Singh |first=Adwait |date=2019-11-19 |title=A Model for Invisible Growth |url=https://takeonartmagazine.com/reviews/a-model-for-invisible-growth/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Take Art Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=OpenArt |date=2017-05-13 |title=Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is pleased to present Hangar for the Passerby |url= https://openart.enmain.com/in/art-exhibition/kiran-nadar-museum-art-pleased-present-hangar-passerby/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=OpenArt India |language=en-US}}</ref> His 2018 play '''Raag Darbari,''' based on the satirical Hindi novel by Shrilal Shukla illustrating the failing values in post-Independence Indian society, is seen as a return to story-telling and conventional theatre in his career.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-11-18 |title=Vikas Has Missed the Bus |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/vikas-has-missed-the-bus-5450218/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> His show '''Table Radica''' (2019-ongoing), which followed soon after, presents the personal strife and the public triumph of an artist working in such a society. The show, directed and performed by Grover himself, used archival and edible elements to focus on the life of the popular Indian playwright and director Habib Tanvir.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Banerjee |first=Kaushani |date=2019-05-20 |title=Table Radica: A unique recreation of Habib Tanvir's radical life on stage and beyond |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2019/May/18/table-radica-a-unique-recreation-of-habib-tanvirs-radical-life-on-stage-and-beyond-1977608.html |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-25 |title=Table Talk: A feast for the senses |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/table-talk-a-feast-for-the-senses/story-zgprqXN1KxhzdFKEZxVKXL.html |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref> In the pandemic years, when theatres were shut down in India, Grover turned to the digital space to create his work.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-02 |title=Creative selection: Creative isolation worked wonders for some, led to huge loss of creativity in others |url=https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/creative-selection-creative-isolation-worked-wonders-for-some-led-to-huge-loss-of-creativity-in-others/2243825/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Financialexpress |language=en}}</ref> In 2020, he created '''The Last Poet''', a cyber-play that centres around a missing poet in a dystopian society, making references to the political threats that writers and artists encounter. The show took place on the web, in which the audience were taken into a 3-D virtual city and provided with options to choose different spaces, called rooms, in which they watched live performances. The show premiered at SA Virtual Festival and was later shown at the Tata Literature Live Festival 2021. It was the official entry at IMPACT 21 Festival held at MT Space for Performing Arts, Canada and the Segal Festival of Theatre & Film, USA.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Last Poet cyber theatre directed by Amitesh Grover |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/arts/review-the-last-poet-cyber-theatre-directed-by-amitesh-grover-written-by-sarah-mariam/cid/1803790 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=4 December 2020 |title=A digital festival that responds to the times |url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com/how-to-lounge/art-culture/a-digital-festival-that-responds-to-the-times-111607046670560.html |website=Mint (newspaper) |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-26 |title=The Last Poet: A Dystopian Journey from Amitesh Grover - India Art Review |url=https://indiaartreview.com/stories/the-last-poet-a-dystopian-journey-from-amitesh-grover/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-24 |title='The actors ask questions and the audience decides what they want to see': Atul Kumar |url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/entertainment/atul-kumar-the-actors-ask-questions-and-the-audience-decides-what-they-want-to-see-7502681.html |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Moneycontrol |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview With Amitesh Grover Interview : www.MumbaiTheatreGuide.com |url=https://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/interviews/amitesh-grover-interview.asp |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=MumbaiTheatreGuide.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=All the web's a stage |url=https://www.theweek.in/theweek/leisure/2020/12/31/all-the-webs-a-stage.html |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Week |language=en}}</ref> Grover is also known for conceptual art and installations. In '''Wounding''' (2021) — for which he received the MASH FICA award for New Media Artist — Grover transformed a family archive of pictures into a narrative about the 1947 Partition. The images experienced visual glitches when individual stories were added to the ASCII representations of the scanned images, presenting "brilliant hues of intentionally glitched, wounded photographs."<ref>{{Cite web |title=WOUNDING by Amitesh Grover |url=https://ficart.org/wounding-by-amitesh-grover |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Narrating the Body in/as Data: WOUNDING, an Episode by Amitesh Grover |url=https://asapconnect.in/post/297/singlestories/narrating-the-body-in-as-data |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=asapconnect.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=adminhakara |date=2021-11-17 |title=Between Memory and History: Annalisa Mansukhani |url=https://www.hakara.in/annalisa-mansukhani/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Hakara |language=en-US}}</ref> As a special commission for the third edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale, Grover created a series of imageless photographs drawn entirely from his imagination and memory titled '''All That We Saw'''. This work was shown as part of the digital showcase running across 2021–22 on the biennale platform as well as galleries and exhibitions across India.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-20 |title=Amitesh Grover's 'imageless photographs' occupy the crowded frame of text and memory |url=https://www.news9live.com/art-culture/amitesh-grovers-imageless-photographs-occupy-the-crowded-frame-of-text-and-memory-154607 |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=News9live |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=world |first=STIR |title=Empty frames of 'All That We Saw' by Amitesh Grover stimulate viewer's memory |url=https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-empty-frames-of-all-that-we-saw-by-amitesh-grover-stimulate-viewers-memory |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=www.stirworld.com |language=English}}</ref>

In a public art installation titled '''Velocity Pieces (2019—ongoing),''' Grover used billboard as a medium to express ideas of protest and dissent through action-poems. A large billboard is erected on Kasturba Gandhi Marg in central Delhi, where Grover's board-poems can be read till date.'' <ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-09 |title=An artist nudges Delhi with verses on a billboard |url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com//news/big-story/an-artist-nudges-the-public-with-verses-on-a-billboard-111635953747868.html |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=Mintlounge |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-22 |title=All the world a stage: Artist urges protest through KG Marg billboard in Delhi |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/all-the-world-a-stage-artist-urges-protest-through-kg-marg-billboard-in-delhi-6280349/ |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Moving Focus, India |url=https://www.accartbooks.com/us/book/moving-focus-india/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=ACC Art Books US |language=en-US}}</ref>'' His most recent theatre production is '''The Money Opera'''''.'' Set in an abandoned building, it is a collection of multiple stories performed by actors and real-life professionals that presents a layered critique of capitalism. The show premiered in Goa at the Serendipity Arts Festival in 2022 and travelled to New Delhi in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Immersive Theatre Experience Of Amitesh Grover's 'Money Opera' |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/art-entertainment/the-immersive-theatre-experience-of-amitesh-grover-s-money-opera--magazine-268520 |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Outlook India |date=11 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-21 |title=In an abandoned building in Goa, Amitesh Grover creates a layered piece on capitalism, titled The Money Opera |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/amitesh-grover-the-money-opera-serendipity-arts-festival-8336597/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chawla |first=Noor Anand |date=2023-09-30 |title=The Money Opera: A new immersive theatrical production offers much to think about |url=https://sundayguardianlive.com/featured/the-money-opera-a-new-immersive-theatrical-production-offers-much-to-think-about |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=The Sunday Guardian Live |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Mankatalia |first=Dhriti |date=2023-09-29 |title=A layered tale about money |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/theatre/a-layered-tale-about-money/article67346290.ece |access-date=2024-03-11 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vasanthan |first=Sobhika |date=2023-09-25 |title=Watch A Groundbreaking Theatrical Exploration Of Greed, Morality, & Desire |url=https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-explore/watch-a-groundbreaking-theatrical-exploration-of-greed-morality-desire |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Homegrown |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Khan |first=Mohd Shehwaaz |date=2023-09-21 |title=The Money Opera comes to Delhi with new characters |url=https://thepatriot.in/delhi-ncr/the-money-opera-comes-to-delhi-with-new-characters-40688 |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Patriot |language=en-US}}</ref>

Grover's work has been shown at the National Theatre (London), MT Space (Canada), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Segal Center Festival on Theatre and Performance (USA), Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art, Arts Centre Melbourne, TATA Literature Festival Mumbai, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Cornell University, Prithvi Theatre Festival, Serendipity Arts Festival.<ref>{{cite web |date=21 December 2022 |title=In an abandoned building in Goa, Amitesh Grover creates a layered piece on capitalism, titled The Money Opera |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/amitesh-grover-the-money-opera-serendipity-arts-festival-8336597/ |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-10 |title=As cultural festivals go digital, organisers aim for global reach, hybrid online-offline presence in future |url=https://www.firstpost.com/art-and-culture/as-cultural-festivals-go-digital-organisers-aim-for-global-reach-hybrid-online-offline-presence-in-future-9095221.html |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Firstpost |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-31 |title=Bonsai Gone Wild |url=https://openthemagazine.com/art-culture/bonsai-gone-wild/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Open The Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref> He has been selected for artist residencies at PACT Zollverein (Germany), Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Japan), and Berliner Theatertreffen. He has been commissioned by the Chennai Photo Biennale and by Australia's Sydney-based 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=China Daily Lifestyle Premium |url=http://cdlifestylepremium.com/art2 |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=China Daily Lifestyle Premium |language=en-US}}</ref> He was the artistic director for International Theatre Festival of Kerala for 2020 and 2021 and the Ranga Shankara Festival, Bangalore in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-21 |title=Celebrating Otherness |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/celebrating-otherness-amitesh-grover-political-art-international-theatre-festival-of-kerala-itfok-theatre-play-6226806/ |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-19 |title=Ranga Shankara theatre festival opens on Oct 27 |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/metrolife/metrolife-your-bond-with-bengaluru/ranga-shankara-theatre-festival-opens-on-oct-27-1042233.html |website=Deccan Herald |language=en}}</ref> He has given artist talks at Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore), Asian Performing Arts Market (Australia) and Hong Kong University.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-14 |title=ANCER Conference 2020: Disruption as Opportunity |url=https://www.ancernetwork.org/mainap/ancer-conference-2020-disruption-as-opportunity/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Ancer Network |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=csgchku |date=2023-06-20 |title=How to do things with words when publishing on performance? |url=https://csgchku.wordpress.com/2023/06/20/how-to-do-things-with-words-when-publishing-on-performance/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=CSGC |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Amitesh Grover |url=https://apam.org.au/artist/amitesh-grover/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=Australian Performing Arts Market |language=en}}</ref>

==Awards==

* Ustad Bismillah Khan National Award For Direction<ref>{{Cite web |title=English Releases |url=https://pib.gov.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?relid=52447 |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=pib.gov.in}}</ref> * MASH FICA New Media Award <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Mash FICA New Media Grant |url=https://ficart.org/mash-fica-new-media-grant |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art |language=en-GB}}</ref> * Swiss Residency Award for South Asian Artist <ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=South Asian artists awarded residencies |url=https://prohelvetia.in/en/artists-in-residence/list-south-asian-artists-awarded-residencies/ |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=Pro Helvetia New Delhi |language=en-GB}}</ref> * Charles Wallace Award (U.K.) <ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2020-10-20 |title=Amitesh's story |url=https://www.charleswallaceindiatrust.com/alumni-stories/amiteshs-story|website=Charles Wallace India Trust |language=en-US}}</ref> '''Nominations'''

* Arte Laguna Prize (Italy) <ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2018-03-22 |title=ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 12th Edition by Arte Laguna Prize - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/artelagunaprize/docs/artelagunaprize17.18 |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}</ref> * Prix Ars Electronica Award (Austria) * Forecast Award (Germany) <ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2015-08-10 |title=A Project By Amitesh Grover – Forecast |url=https://forecast-platform.com/amitesh-grover-a-performapedia/ |access-date=2023-07-17 |language=en-US}}</ref> ==Publications==

* Performance Making and the Archive, Ed. Ashutosh Potdar & Sharmistha Saha, {{ISBN|9780367195601}}, Routledge India, 2022 <ref>{{Cite web |title=Performance Making and the Archive |url=https://www.routledge.com/Performance-Making-and-the-Archive/Potdar-Saha/p/book/9780367195601 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Routledge & CRC Press |language=en}}</ref> * Pandemic of Perspectives, Ed. Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur, Debaroti Chakraborty, {{ISBN|9781003320524}}, Routledge India <ref>{{Cite web |title=Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imaginings |url=https://www.routledge.com/Pandemic-of-Perspectives-Creative-Re-imaginings/Mehta-Thakur-Chakraborty/p/book/9781032020907 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Routledge & CRC Press |language=en}}</ref> * Postdramatic Theatre and India, Ed. Ashis Sengupta, {{ISBN|9781350154094}}, Bloomsbury Publishing <ref>{{Cite web |last=bloomsbury.com |title=Postdramatic Theatre and India |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/postdramatic-theatre-and-india-9781350154094/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Bloomsbury |language=en}}</ref> * Why Curate Live Arts? TURBA, The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, Ed. Dena Davida, {{ISSN|2693-0129}}, Berghahn Journals, New York & Berlin <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grover |first=Amitesh |date=2022-03-01 |title=There Will Be Trouble: Curating Theater in India |url=https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/turba/1/1/turba010109.xml |journal=TURBA |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=95–102 |doi=10.3167/turba.2022.010109 |s2cid=245806425 |issn=2693-0137|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ISSUE, Ed. Venka Purushothaman, {{ISSN|2315-4802}}, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore <ref>{{Cite web |title=Search results for issue11 - The Ngee Ann Kongsi Library Institutional Repository |url=https://drlib.lasalle.edu.sg/cgi/search/simple?q=issue11&_action_search=Search&_action_search=Search&_order=bytitle&basic_srchtype=ALL&_satisfyall=ALL |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=drlib.lasalle.edu.sg}}</ref> * Improvised Futures: Encountering the Body in Performance, Ed. Ranjana Dave, {{ISBN|978-81-945348-2-2}}, Tullika Books <ref>{{Cite book |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/improvised-futures/9788194534822 |title=Improvised Futures: Encountering the Body in Performance, No. 2 |date=February 2022 |publisher=Tulika Books |isbn=978-81-945348-2-2 |editor-last=Dave |editor-first=Ranjana}}</ref> * Hakara, Ed. Ashutosh Potdar, {{ISSN|2581-9976}} <ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-12-23 |title=Directing Raag Darbari: Amitesh Grover |url=https://www.hakara.in/amitesh-grover/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Hakara |language=en-US}}</ref> * Imaginable Worlds: Art, Crisis, and Global Futures, Ed. Orianna Cacchione, Nandita Jaishankar, and Arushi Vats, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago <ref>{{Cite book |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo185844636.html |title=Imaginable Worlds: Art, Crisis, and Global Futures |publisher=Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago |editor-last=Cacchione |editor-first=Orianna |language=en |editor-last2=Jaishankar |editor-first2=Nandita |editor-last3=Vats |editor-first3=Arushi |editor-last4=Banerjee |editor-first4=Trina Nileena |editor-last5=Bernaus |editor-first5=Leticia |editor-last6=Nyen |editor-first6=Ho Tzu |editor-last7=Iweala |editor-first7=Uzodinma |editor-last8=Jagoda |editor-first8=Patrick |editor-last9=Kandasamy |editor-first9=Meena}}</ref> * Moving Focus: New Perspectives on Modern & Contemporary Art, Ed. Mortimer Chaterjee, {{ISBN|978-1-78884-173-3}}, ACC Art Books, USA & Canada * The Indian Express - A Voice, Under 35: The Murder of A Scene <ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-02-22 |title=A voice, under 35: The murder of a scene |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/a-voice-under-35-the-murder-of-a-scene/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> == References ==

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